"Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion."

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Davy Rothbart

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“You could say that my aim is â€˜to recover the placeâ€™. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of Japanese architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.”
“Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.”
“For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps and whatnot that show voice and make a book unique from all the other super shiny flat surfaces”
“Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.”
“One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it.”
“I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.”

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“When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's much more fun to wander than to be guided, and you could do it in those days with freedom and without paranoia. In similar fashion, I try to allow the reader room to wander, even to meander, to almost lose themselves and their grip of the narrative.”
“I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.”

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